Also known as Virginia Solite Quarry, CB1, Leaksville Junction
Where: Rockingham County, North Carolina (36.5° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 23.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Cow Branch Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Upper Member refered to as CB2. The footprint-bearing block was not found in place but is believed to come from the Upper Member. Body fossils from cycles 2, 3, and 16 within the quarry series
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; dolomitic, black, gray siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, trace, soft parts
Collected by P. Olsen in 1974-; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical, peel or thin section,
• Footprint specimen is a latex peel of the large trackway-bearing slab.
Primary reference: P. E. Olsen. 1979. A new aquatic eosuchian from the Newark Supergroup (Late Triassic–Early Jurassic) of North Carolina and Virginia. Postilla 176:1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55493: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 27.10.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano, Mark Uhen, Matthew Clapham and Jered Karr
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Equisetopsida | |
Pagiophyllum sp.3 Heer 1881
Brachyphyllum sp.3 Brongniart 1828 | |
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Wingatea | |
Wingatea sp.3 Ash 1969 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Dictyophyllum sp.3 Lindley and Hutton 1834 | |
Lonchopteris | |
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Lepacyclotes | |
Lepacyclotes sp.3 Emmons 1856 | |
Cycadopsida | |
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Lepidodendron sp.3 Sternberg 1820 | |
Pelourdea sp.3 Seward 1917 | |
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Zamites powelli3 Fontaine 1890
Pterophyllum sp.3 Brongniart 1828 | |
Insecta | |
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Pseudopolycentropodes virginicus n. gen.2
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"Schizophoridae indet." = Phoroschizidae3
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Architipula youngi n. sp.5
Architipula youngi n. sp.5 Krzemiński 1992 crane fly YPM 1103 (actually YPM 35968), YPM 3, YPM YEN 1167
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Veriplecia rugosa n. sp.1
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Alinka cara n. gen. n. sp.5 Krzemiński 1992 fly YPM 100000 (given as YPM 16826 in Blagoderov et al. 2007), 400000
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Coelacanthimorpha | |
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Amphibia | |
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Reptilia | |
Tanytrachelos ahynis n. gen. n. sp.
Tanytrachelos ahynis n. gen. n. sp. Olsen 1979 archosauromorph | |
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Actinopteri | |
Semionotus sp.3 Agassiz 1832 | |
Osteichthyes | |
Cionichthys sp.3 Schaeffer 1967
Synorichthys sp.3 Schaeffer 1967 | |
Turseodus sp.3 Leidy 1857 |